tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026488138759111662018-03-05T09:31:42.217-08:00Film adaptations of great booksPhilfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-27665185188675618512017-03-03T20:51:00.003-08:002018-02-13T03:21:02.164-08:00Pride and Prejudice, 1940 film<i><b>Pride and Prejudice</b></i> is a 1940 American film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/pride-and-prejudice-jane-austen.html"><i>Pride and Prejudice</i></a>, directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. The screenplay was written by Aldous Huxley and Jane Murfin, adapted specifically from the stage adaptation by Helen Jerome in addition to Jane Austen's novel. The film is about five sisters from an English family of landed gentry who must deal with issues of marriage, morality, and misconceptions. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_(1940_film)"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe src="//ok.ru/videoembed/261468981923" style="width:100%; height:400px; border:none;"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-18618481083317108342017-03-03T19:53:00.000-08:002017-03-05T00:10:53.018-08:00The Age of Innocence, 1993 film<i><b>The Age of Innocence</b></i> is a 1993 American film adaptation of <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/the-age-of-innocence-edith-wharton.html">Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name</a>. The story takes place during the Gilded Age, portraying New York's high society. The film was released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Martin Scorsese, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.<br /><br />Newland Archer (Daniel Day Lewis) is planning to marry the respectable May Welland (Winona Ryder). May's cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), has returned to New York, which causes a shock in society circles. The Countess unwisely married a Polish Count, who took her fortune and mistreated her; she left him to return to New York. <b>...</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence_(1993_film)"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe src="http://ok.ru/videoembed/80822012482" style="width:100%; height:400px; border:none;"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-87298083055155459162017-03-02T08:12:00.000-08:002017-03-05T00:11:51.197-08:00Far from the Madding Crowd, 1967 film<i><b>Far from the Madding Crowd</b></i> is a 1967 British epic drama film adapted from <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/far-from-the-madding-crowd-thomas-hardy.html">Thomas Hardy's book of the same name</a>. The film, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp and Peter Finch, and directed by John Schlesinger, was Schlesinger's fourth film (and his third collaboration with Christie). It marked a stylistic shift away from his earlier works exploring contemporary urban mores. The cinematography was by Nicolas Roeg and the soundtrack was by Richard Rodney Bennett. He also used traditional folk songs in various scenes throughout the film. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_from_the_Madding_Crowd_(1967_film)"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe src="http://ok.ru/videoembed/27380943440" style="width:100%; height:400px; border:none;"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-50744181623997201722017-02-26T06:46:00.002-08:002018-02-13T18:53:26.903-08:00Elephant Boy, 1937 film<i><b>Elephant Boy</b></i> is a 1937 British adventure film starring Sabu in his film debut. Documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty, who produced some of the Indian footage, and supervising director Zoltan Korda, who completed the film, won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival. The film was made at the London Films studios at Denham, and in Mysore, India, and is based on the story "Toomai of the Elephants" from Rudyard Kipling's <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/jungle-book.html">The Jungle Book (1894)</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Boy_(film)"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uwLakEXQfWM" frameborder="0" ></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-40249647492483510232017-02-24T21:37:00.002-08:002017-02-24T21:37:24.550-08:00The Phantom of the Opera, 1925 film<i><b>The Phantom of the Opera</b></i> is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/the-phantom-of-the-opera.html"><i>Le Fantome de l'Opera</i></a>, directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney, Sr. in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he "loves" a star. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1925_film)"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aI0tWZc8gP4" style="width:100%; height:400px; border:none;"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-2812908056061515332017-02-24T08:08:00.003-08:002017-02-24T08:12:33.009-08:00The Thief of Bagdad, 1924 film<i><b>The Thief of Bagdad</b></i> is a 1924 American swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks. Freely adapted from <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/one-thousand-and-one-nights.html"><i>One Thousand and One Nights</i></a>, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad.<br /><br /><i>The Thief of Bagdad</i> is now widely considered one of the great silent films and Fairbanks's greatest work. Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance writes, "An epic romantic fantasy-adventure inspired by several of the Arabian Nights tales, <i>The Thief of Bagdad</i> is the greatest artistic triumph of Fairbanks's career. The superb visual design, spectacle, imaginative splendor, and visual effects, along with his bravura performance (leading a cast of literally thousands), all contribute to making this his masterpiece." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_of_Bagdad_(1924_film)"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x29iofr" style="width:100%; height:400px; border:none;"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-54254586824866937222016-07-04T00:10:00.002-07:002017-02-17T18:57:08.130-08:00Eroica, 2003 film<i><b>Eroica</b></i> is a BBC television film that dramatises the first performance of <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/biography/the-genius-of-beethoven.html">Beethoven</a>'s third symphony, the Eroica. It carries the tagline 'The day that changed music forever'. The film was directed by Simon Cellan Jones, written by Nick Dear and starred Ian Hart, Tim Pigott-Smith, Anton Lesser and Frank Finlay. The film is set in Vienna on 9 June 1804, the date of the private, first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, later to be known as the 'Eroica'. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroica_(2003_film)"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UtA7m3viB70" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-48188177113477133662016-07-03T18:04:00.000-07:002017-02-17T19:05:52.653-08:00Macbeth, 1978 film<i><b>Macbeth</b></i> is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/tragedy-of-macbeth.html">the play by William Shakespeare</a>. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth_(1978_film)"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YpKWWK0Pj34" frameborder="0" ></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-72331771013798250302016-02-10T21:39:00.003-08:002018-02-13T18:42:00.274-08:00The Invisible Man Returns, 1940 film<i><b>The Invisible Man Returns</b></i> is a 1940 American horror science fiction film from Universal. It was written as a sequel to <a href="http://filvidmovs.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-invisible-man-1933-film.html">the 1933 film The Invisible Man</a>, which was based on <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/the-invisible-man.html">the novel The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells</a>.<br /><br />The screenplay for the film was written by Lester Cole and Curt Siodmak (as Kurt Siodmak). The film director was Joe May, who had previously directed The House of the Seven Gables. (May's native language was German, and he spoke little English.) The cast of the film included Vincent Price (in his first horror film role), Cecil Kellaway, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nan Grey, Alan Napier and John Sutton. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_Returns"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="400" src="//ok.ru/videoembed/340379634318" frameborder="0" ></iframe><div><br /><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-40314338278895321682015-12-07T17:08:00.001-08:002017-02-17T20:28:13.863-08:00Jane Eyre, 1970 film<b><i>Jane Eyre</i></b> is a 1970 television film directed by Delbert Mann starring George C. Scott and Susannah York. It is based on <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/jane-eyre-charlotte-bronte.html">the 1847 novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte</a>. The film had its theatrical debut in the United Kingdom in 1970 and was released on television in the United States in 1971.<br /><br />Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to the cruel school institution of Lowood. On leaving, she takes a position as governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall. Fully aware of her low rank and plain countenance, she makes the best of her situation. But Thornfield holds many secrets and despite mysterious occurrences that Jane cannot comprehend, she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfield and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light which needs all her courage, love and maturity. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre_%281970_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://archive.org/embed/JaneEyre70" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div> Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-20950016091341497852015-12-07T16:26:00.000-08:002017-06-01T21:58:53.595-07:00Faust, 1926 film<b><i>Faust</i></b> is a 1926 silent film produced by UFA, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt. Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/faust-goethe.html">Goethe's classic version</a>. UFA wanted Ludwig Berger to direct Faust, as Murnau was engaged with Variety; Murnau pressured the producer and, backed by Jannings, eventually persuaded Erich Pommer to let him direct the film. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_%281926_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Flnxq2HMOqA" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-53094632156867174892015-12-06T20:11:00.002-08:002017-02-24T20:31:09.780-08:00The Brothers Karamazov, 1958 film<b><i>The Brothers Karamazov</i></b> is a 1957 film made by MGM, based on <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/the-brothers-karamazov-dostoyevsky.html">Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov</a>. It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. The brothers are played by Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart and William Shatner in his film debut. ... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov_%281958_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="http://ok.ru/videoembed/79926463135" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div> Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-4253815845488985392015-10-08T02:17:00.004-07:002017-06-01T20:35:26.908-07:00Abraham Lincoln, 1930 film<i><b>Abraham Lincoln</b></i>, also released under the title <i>D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln"</i>, is a 1930 Pre-Code biographical film about <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/biography/abraham-lincoln.html">American president Abraham Lincoln</a> directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln, Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge, and Kay Hammond as Mary Todd Lincoln.<br /><br />The first act of the film covers Lincoln's early life as a storekeeper and rail-splitter in New Salem and his early romance with Ann Rutledge, and his early years as a lawyer and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd in Springfield. The majority of the film deals with Lincoln's presidency during the American Civil War and culminates with Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_%281930_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HeIm5RiWb_w" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-71184833012964076242015-10-02T04:22:00.002-07:002017-06-01T22:21:58.796-07:00Macbeth, 1983 filmThis is the complete BBC Special TV enactment of the <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/tragedy-of-macbeth.html">Shakespeare's Macbeth</a> Directed by Jack Gold (1983). The film stars Nicol Williamson as Macbeth, Jane Lapotaire as Lady Macbeth, and Mark Dignam as Duncan.<br /><br />Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.<div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ykpVTOoG7xU" frameborder="0" ></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-59237614244641017162015-10-01T20:06:00.000-07:002017-06-02T00:11:58.115-07:00The Scarlet Letter, 1934 film<i><b>The Scarlet Letter</b></i> is a 1934 film adaptation of <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/the-scarlet-letter.html">Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel under the same name</a>. Directed by Robert G. Vignola, the film stars Colleen Moore as Hester Prynne, Henry B. Walthall as Roger Chillingworth, Betty Blythe as Innkeeper, William Farnum as Gov. Bellingham, and Hardie Albright as Arthur Dimmesdale.<br /><br />Hester Prynne has a child out of wedlock and refuses to name the father (who is a respected citizen). For this, she is sentenced to wear a red letter "A" (for adultery). Her husband is long missing and presumed dead. When the husband returns and finds his wife with another man's child, he sets out to torture them. At last, the father reveals himself, with a letter "A" carved in his chest. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter_%281934_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sf9I89ooaDE" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-13536231906337944302015-09-07T16:27:00.000-07:002017-06-01T20:50:11.598-07:00Caravaggio, 1986 film<i><b>Caravaggio</b></i> (1986) is a British film directed by Derek Jarman. The film is a fictionalised re-telling of the life of Baroque painter <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/art/PowerOfArt/caravaggio.html">Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio</a>. It stars Nigel Terry as Caravaggio, Sean Bean as Ranuccio, and Tilda Swinton as Lena.<br /><br />Told in a segmented fashion, the film opens as Caravaggio (Nigel Terry) dies from lead poisoning while in exile, with only his long-time deaf-dumb companion Jerusaleme (Spencer Leigh) (who was given by his family to the artist as a boy) by his side. Caravaggio thinks back to his life as a teenage street ruffian (Dexter Fletcher) who hustles and paints. While taken ill and in the care of priests, young Caravaggio catches the eye of Cardinal Del Monte (Michael Gough). Del Monte nurtures Caravaggio's artistic and intellectual development but also appears to molest him. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio_%281986_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zgpr0Cr52zg" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-20182633511407981232015-06-28T20:52:00.000-07:002017-06-01T22:20:49.792-07:00Les Miserables, 1935 film<i><b>Les Miserables</b></i> is a 1935 American drama film starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton based upon the famous <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/les-miserables-victor-hugo.html">Victor Hugo novel of the same name</a>. The movie was adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski. The plot of the movie basically follows Hugo's novel <i>Les Miserables</i>, but there are a large number of differences. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%281935_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://archive.org/embed/Les_Miserables" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-88124987025743542462015-06-13T01:14:00.002-07:002017-02-17T20:31:55.498-08:00Jane Eyre, 1943 film<i><b>Jane Eyre</b></i> is an American film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel of the same name, released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by William Goetz, Kenneth Macgowan, and Orson Welles (uncredited). The film stars Welles and Joan Fontaine. Elizabeth Taylor made an early, uncredited appearance. The screenplay was written by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley, Henry Koster, and Robert Stevenson, based on a radio adaptation of the novel presented on The Mercury Theatre on the Air, on which John Houseman collaborated. The music score was by Bernard Herrmann and the cinematography by George Barnes.<br /><br />Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre (Peggy Ann Garner) lives with her cruel and selfish, uncaring paternal aunt, Mrs. Reed (Agnes Moorehead) of Gateshead Hall. Jane is ecstatic when Mrs. Reed, eager to be rid of the child, arranges for Jane to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity boarding school for young girls, run by the disciplinarian Reverend Brocklehurst (Henry Daniell). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre_%281943_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PsW3WPamuq8" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div> Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-80201412673907657562015-06-12T19:42:00.001-07:002017-06-01T20:37:05.103-07:00Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1954 film<i><b>Robinson Crusoe</b></i> (Spanish: <i>Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe</i>; also known as <i>Adventures of Robinson Crusoe</i>) is a 1954 Mexican film by director Luis Bunuel, based on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Both English and Spanish versions were produced.<br /><br />Robinson Crusoe (Dan O'Herlihy), a third son with few prospects, goes to sea against his father's wishes. On a voyage from Brazil to Africa to collect slaves, a storm forces him to abandon ship. He swims alone to a deserted island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean on September 30, 1659. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_%281954_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b-YoBU0XT90" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-39119320712549988842015-06-10T21:03:00.001-07:002018-02-13T23:08:21.011-08:00Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1987 filmThis is a 1987 film adaptation of the novel <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/uncle-toms-cabin-harriet-beecher-stowe.html">Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly</a> by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852. The film was directed by Stan Lathan and adapted by John Gay. It starred Avery Brooks, Phylicia Rashad, Edward Woodward, Jenny Lewis, Bruce Dern, Samuel L. Jackson and Endyia Kinney.<div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VScybK6eeqk" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div> Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-76103885295750075552015-06-10T00:21:00.003-07:002017-02-27T01:21:55.947-08:00The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, 1960 film<i><b>The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll</b></i> is a 1960 horror film by Hammer Film Productions. It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Paul Massie as Dr. Jekyll, and co-stars Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee and David Kossoff. It was written by Wolf Mankowitz, based on the 1886 novella <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/jekyll-and-hyde.html">Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</a> by Robert Louis Stevenson.<br /><br />In contrast to other film versions, Jekyll was portrayed as a rather bland and faceless person, while Hyde was presented as suave and handsome. This reflects director Fisher's belief in what critics (such as biographer Wheeler Winston Dixon) called "the charm of evil". The film is also unusual in that it is one of the few where the Jekyll/Hyde character does not die in the story's conclusion. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Faces_of_Dr._Jekyll"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zL8F4eHOOvM" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-49630472877926156452015-06-08T23:50:00.001-07:002017-02-26T03:45:48.593-08:00The Invisible Man, 1933 film<b><i>The Invisible Man</i></b> is a 1933 science fiction film based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/the-invisible-man.html">The Invisible Man</a>, published in 1897, as adapted by R. C. Sherriff, Philip Wylie and Preston Sturges, whose work was considered unsatisfactory and who was taken off the project. Produced by Universal Studios, the film was directed by James Whale and stars Claude Rains, in his first American screen appearance, and Gloria Stuart. It spawned a number of sequels, plus many spinoffs using the idea of an "invisible man" that were largely unrelated to Wells' original story.<br /><br />Rains portrayed the Invisible Man (Dr. Jack Griffin) mostly only as a disembodied voice. Rains is only shown clearly for a brief time at the end of the film, spending most of his on-screen time covered by bandages. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_%28film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/148891961" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div> Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-60073350209868110552015-06-08T18:18:00.000-07:002017-02-26T00:57:47.012-08:00The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959 film<b><i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i></b> is a 1959 British gothic horror and mystery film, directed by Terence Fisher and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is based on <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/hound-baskervilles.html">the novel of the same name</a> by Sir <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/biography/arthur-conan-doyle.html">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>. It stars Peter Cushing as <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/fiction/sherlock-holmes.html">Sherlock Holmes</a>, Sir Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville and Andre Morell as Doctor Watson.<br /><br /> The infamous and cruel aristocrat, Sir Hugo Baskerville, is hosting a party at Baskerville Hall, when the daughter of a cruelly abused servant escapes from the mansion through a window, frightened by Baskerville's lustful intent for her. In spite of his friends' misgivings, Baskerville pursues her through the moor with a pack of beagles. The beagles and Baskerville's horse are spooked and back off. Baskerville dismounts and pursues her on foot, finds her and stabs her to death with a curved dagger in the nearby abbey ruins. However, a huge dog, unseen but heard by the audience suddenly appears and kills Baskerville. From then on, as legend has it, the 'Hound of Hell' has become known as the 'Hound of the Baskervilles' and, any night a Baskerville is alone on the moor, the hound will kill him. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_%281959_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="340" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x1x7fyu" frameborder="0"></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-2607943913882450392015-02-23T22:21:00.003-08:002017-06-02T00:04:45.420-07:00Rembrandt, 1936 film<b><i>Rembrandt</i></b> is a 1936 British biographical film made by London Film Productions of the life of 17th-century Dutch painter <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/biography/rembrandt-van-rijn.html">Rembrandt van Rijn</a>. The film was produced and directed by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by June Head and Lajos Biro based on a story by Carl Zuckmayer. It starred Charles Laughton as Rembrandt van Rijn, Gertrude Lawrence as Geertje Dircx, and Elsa Lanchester as Hendrickje Stoffels. The music score was by Geoffrey Toye and the cinematography by Georges Perinal. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt_%281936_film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OMuGb6IVJis" frameborder="0" ></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702648813875911166.post-9590736625662669712015-02-12T23:26:00.003-08:002017-06-02T00:06:58.796-07:00Scott of the Antarctic, 1948 film<i><b>Scott of the Antarctic</b></i> is a 1948 film which depicts <a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/biography/robert-scott-antarctic-expeditions.html">Robert Falcon Scott</a>'s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition and his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in Antarctica. John Mills played Scott, with a supporting cast which included James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Barry Letts and Christopher Lee.<br /><br />Produced by Ealing Studios, the film was directed by Charles Frend on location in the Antarctic (at the Hope Bay base of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey), in Switzerland and in Norway. It was filmed in Technicolor. The script was by Ivor Montagu, Walter Meade and the novelist Mary Hayley Bell, Mills' wife. The film is also known for its score by Ralph Vaughan Williams that was later reworked into his <i>Sinfonia antartica</i>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_of_the_Antarctic_%28film%29"><b>Read More >></b></a><div><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="380" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VFZyJ956sJk" frameborder="0" ></iframe><div><br /></div>Philfilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055034546140316536noreply@blogger.com